The story of Joseph, told in the same popular, interesting, and realistic manner as that of Jesus in the author’s former book; not only setting forth truthfully and graphically the life of Joseph, but picturing as well the marvelous state of Egypt in which he lived. JESUS THE CARPENTER By A. LAYMAN. 12mo, $1.50. “I think the idea of this book--the aim and the intention--excellent and the execution beautiful.”--Prof. A. B. BRUCE. * * * * * A NEW BOOK BY KIRK MUNROE AT WAR WITH PONTIAC OR, THE TOTEM OF THE BEAR. A Tale of Redcoat and Redskin. By KIRK MUNROE. With 8 full-page illustrations by J. FINNEMORE. 12mo, $1.25. A story of old days in America when Detroit was a frontier town and the shores of Lake Erie were held by hostile Indians under Pontiac. The hero, Donald Hester, goes in search of his sister Edith, who has been captured by the Indians. Strange and terrible are his experiences: for he is wounded, taken prisoner, condemned to be burned, and contrives to escape. In the end there is peace between Pontiac and the English, and all things terminate happily for the hero. One dares not skip a page of this enthralling story. THE WHITE CONQUEROR A TALE OF TOLTEC AND AZTEC. By KIRK MUNROE. With 8 full-page illustrations by W. S. STACEY. 12mo, $1.25. “The story is replete with scenes of vivid power; it is full of action and rapid movement; and he must be deficient in receptive faculty who fails to gain valuable historical instruction, along with the pleasure of reading a tale graphically told.”--_Philadelphia Bulletin._ STORIES OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND HISTORY By HENRIETTA CHRISTIAN WRIGHT. _A NEW VOLUME JUST ISSUED._ =CHILDREN’S STORIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE=, 1660-1860. 12mo, $1.25. Miss Wright here continues her attractive presentation of literary history begun in her “Children’s Stories in English Literature.” Elliot, the translator of the Bible into the English language, Irving, Cooper, Prescott, Holmes, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Mrs. Stowe, Whittier, Poe, and Emerson are here considered, bringing the history of the subject down to the period of the Civil War, and treated with constant reference to that side of their works and personalities which most nearly appeals to children. =CHILDREN’S STORIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.= Two volumes: TALIÈSIN TO SHAKESPEARE, SHAKESPEARE TO TENNYSON. 12mo, each, $1.25. “It is indeed a vivid history of the people as well as a story of their literature: and, brief as it is, the author has so deftly seized on all the salient points, that the child who has read this book will be more thoroughly acquainted than many a student of history with the life and thought of the centuries over which the work reaches.”--_The Evangelist._ =CHILDREN’S STORIES OF THE GREAT SCIENTISTS.= With portraits. 12mo, $1.25.